Cambridge Entomological Club meeting TODAY on May 12!

[Amine Kousba]

Hey everyone!! It’s our last meeting of the academic year!!! Please come listen to me nerd out about light pollution before our fun series of summer workshops 🌟 it will be so cool and I am so jazzed to see you all there!!! Also, my mom is attending from California via Zoom so you should totally come so I can show her how cool I am...

Date: May 12 @7:30 PM EST 
Location: In Person in Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology MCZ101A, or on Zoom 

Speaker: Amine Kousba

Title: How do insects respond to artificial light at night?

Background: Increasing levels of artificial light at night (ALAN) and urbanization are becoming prevalent drivers of global insect declines. A key cause of this is that insects fly towards artificial lights (a behavior known as flight-to-light), leading to exhaustion, decreased foraging and reproduction, and increased vulnerability to predation. Shedding light on the environmental determinants of the timing of insect flight-to-light behavior carries implications for the conservation of at-risk species in increasingly illuminated urban, suburban, and rural habitats alike.

NOTICE: We will be holding hybrid meetings to accommodate audience members from around the world. You can join our Zoom meeting by clicking here.

For those able to attend, we will have an informal dinner at 6:00 pm at Nirvana (1680 Massachusetts Ave), followed by our formal meeting (7:30 - 9:00 pm) in room MCZ101A of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (there will be signs to help direct). The meeting will begin with club announcements, followed by a 60-minute presentation and Q&A.